Come What May Lifted by Acting of Hal Skelly
Shipley, Joseph T.
"Come What May" Lifted by Acting of Hal Skelly The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley COME WHAT DOES TOME WHAT MAY," Hal .Skelly presents a panoramic American comedy liy Richard F....
...World In Revolt" Due at the Rialto Arthur L. Mayer, managing director of the Rialto Theatre, today signed a contract for the exclusive showing in Greater New York of "World In Revolt...
...Vera Baranuyskaia, of the Moscow Art Theatre...
...and Mary Philips adds an excellent portrait of the average American women, growing through eager girlhood to the joys and the sorrows of a "humdrum" life...
...The story carries us from the early efforts of Chet Harrison to establish himself as a typesetter and husband, through his absent* for service in the 1898 war, or j through the days when the linotypt 'throws him out of work, through the struggles any family has— dying grandmother, brother whc drinks and whose wife leaves him— to the good financial days after the World War...
...Pudowki, who plays the role ofe an officer, and A. Chris* tiakov...
...After Ap.'il showers come what Way...
...The cast is headed by» Nikolai Batalov, who played the collective leader in "Road to Life...
...One returns to Haf Skelly and Mary Philips, without whose work there would be considerably less i to say, but whose characterizations turn this drudgery piece into at least an exhibition of skilled portrayal of men and women such as we daily find around...
...The wide sweep of the current century's first generation— spanned from Boer War to the World Conflict in "Cavalcade"—is in this American parallel surveyed from the time of the Spanish-American War to our own day, through the life of Mr...
...There is a last radiant scene in which the happy couple, watching the young folks on their merry way, look forward to a time of increasing prosperity and good-will and universal joy...
...The date is October, li»28...
...Emil Lengyel, international writer and lecturer on economics, wrote the script and Graham M c N a m e e, NBC ace broadcaster, makes his 5 initial appearance as the narrator I in a full length production...
...It should be stated at once that Ha) Skelly makes the man far from ordinary...
...Petersburg...
...World In Revolt" is not a war picture but an accounting of revo-1 lutions, compiled from the film' archives of fourteen nations Maxim Gorki's "Mother," New Soviet Film, at the Acme Maxim Gorki's "Mother," released in this country under the title of "19Q5," has been finally passed by the censors, after many years of suppression, and without any eliminations, and is now being shown at the Acme Theatre...
...Mother" —"1906" —tells the story of a peasant mother deadened by cruel years with her vicious drunken husband, finding in devotion to her son the kep to a spiritual development that transforms her into a valiant fighter for liberty and freedom...
...It's a pity, the play does not glow above them, but plods on the level of these ordinary lives...
...This much talked of Soviet film is based on Gorki's famous navel and is directed by V. I. Pudovkin, creator of "Storm Over Asia" and "The End of St...
...Ordinary Man...
...Glamour" at Fox Brooklyn Edna Ferbers' "Glamour," featuring Paul Lukas and Constance ''ummings, opens at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...Come What May" Lifted by Acting of Hal Skelly The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley COME WHAT DOES TOME WHAT MAY," Hal .Skelly presents a panoramic American comedy liy Richard F. Fiournojr, At the Plymouth...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 67
